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In addition to our formal news releases (below), you can get informal news about CCPA's activities from our Updates. You can also view news releases and updates from specific CCPA offices across Canada or from specific projects and inititatives (such as The Growing Gap, Climate Justice, Alternative Federal Budget, and others).

L’Alternative budgétaire pour le gouvernement fédéral propose un véritable réinvestissement social
La majorité des Canadiennes et des Canadiens qui veulent que le gouvernement fédéral renonce à sa vision étroite de coupures d’impôt et de réduction de la dette...
February 17, 2003 | National Office
Alternative Federal Budget delivers real social reinvestment
OTTAWA--The majority of Canadians who want the federal government to abandon its narrow focus on tax cuts and debt reduction will find the social reinvestment they're looking for in Alternative...
February 17, 2003 | National Office
Olympics cannot be justified on economic grounds
(Vancouver) Hosting the 2010 Winter Olympics cannot be justified on economic grounds alone. That is one of the key findings of Olympic Costs and Benefits: A Cost-...
February 14, 2003 | BC Office
Federal Liberals break their 50:50 budget-sharing promise
OTTAWA--Prime Minister Jean Chretien, during both the 1997 and 2000 federal election campaigns, promised that future "fiscal dividends" (the underlying budget surpluses resulting from economic...
February 12, 2003 | National Office
BC would have smaller deficits without tax and spending cuts, says CCPA
(Vancouver) The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives says the provincial government could spare British Columbians the pain of...
February 4, 2003 | BC Office
Add it up
TORONTO--Recent investments in public education by the Eves Government only address the recommendations of the Rozanski Report for immediate action, and will fall far short of full implementation...
January 29, 2003 | Ontario Office
A Canadian action plan for Kyoto
The federal government's projected budget surplus of $8 billion for the current fiscal year should be rolled into an innovative Kyoto Investment and Transition Fund instead of being used to reduce...
January 27, 2003 | National Office, BC Office
CCPA researchers evaluate BC's health care restructuring
(Vancouver) The CCPA has published a policy brief called "Health care restructuring in BC." It considers the implications of the provincial government's plan for health care reorganization,...
January 24, 2003 | BC Office
Canadian public health care and world trade
OTTAWA--The Canadian government must take decisive action now to halt the commercialization of health care, says the 2003 report of Social Watch Canada to be presented this week at the annual...
January 24, 2003 | National Office
Un rapport indique que le gouvernement fédéral doit donner le pas au maintien des soins de santé publics
Si le gouvernement fédéral ne recommence pas à participer au système de santé public en y injectant des fonds supplémentaires et en employant son pouvoir juridique et moral pour prévenir la...
January 23, 2003 | National Office

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